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Is This a New Journal? Guest Editorial GUEST EDITORIAL IS THIS A NEW JOURNAL? Rajshekhar Bipeta Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Gandhi Medical College and Hospital ABSTRACT In this editorial, I give a background and history of Telangana Journal of Psychiatry, the challenges it faces, and provide suggestions to improve its standards. Keywords: Division of society; new journal; Journal in transition; Challenges; Way ahead On 02 June 2014, the erstwhile united state of Andhra editorial board members. It wants good and quality Pradesh was divided into Andhra Pradesh state and manuscripts from high profile authors; however, Telangana state.[1] Following the division of the reputed authors look for highly placed journals which ‘erstwhile Indian Psychiatric Society-Andhra are indexed in prestigious databases.[7] The most Pradesh (IPS-AP)’, Indian Psychiatric Society- important factor in my opinion is the peer reviewers[5] Telangana (IPS-TSB) state branch was formed; thus, Reputed researchers and academicians hesitate to IPS-TSB now happens to be the official state branch of associate with a journal as reviewer or editorial board the national body (Indian Psychiatric Society).[2,3] The member if it is not highly placed; failing to remember Andhra Pradesh Journal of Psychological Medicine (AP that it is more challenging to raise a journal’s standards J Psychol Med) that was the asset (like any other asset) and to give proper direction. Thus, it is a tricky of the ‘erstwhile IPS-AP’ was given to IPS-Andhra situation for all those associated with a new journal/ Pradesh state branch.[2,4] It was also decided that the journal in transition; this especially puts lot of pressure IPS-TSB ‘would be starting a journal with a different on the editor. We, at TJP are honoured to have reputed name. However, it will share the heritage of The scholars who joined our journal as editorial board Andhra Pradesh Journal of Psychological Medicine (AP members; thus, raising its standards. J Psychol Med), including its legacy, long publication history.... The same would be mentioned on the mast It may also happen to a new journal/journal in head of the journal and the society.’[2,4,5,6] transition, that in view of paucity of manuscripts or because of their own career requirements, many Thus, came into existence, the Telangana Journal of submissions may be from the editor, or the editorial Psychiatry (TJP), following the division of ‘erstwhile board. This raises potential conflicts of interest (COI) in IPS-AP’ and is the official journal of IPS-TSB.[6] the form of publication bias. Special mechanisms Coming back to the title of my editorial, ‘is this a new should be in place ‘from the very beginning’ to handle journal’? No way! This is not a new journal; ‘TJP is a such a potential COI.[8,9,10] I do not buy the argument journal in transition’ and shares the history and legacy that as our journal is in infancy we should ignore this of AP J Psychol Med.[6] This should be communicated important issue right now. From the very beginning, we at various levels; the ISSN, the authors, reviewers, should tackle this problem because this is an important prospective editorial board members, publishers, the criterion which indexing authorities look into. Explicit indexing authorities, etc. guidelines are there internationally. As the editor of AP J Psychol Med, I could handle this. I did not have any The way forward: original article submission which is one of the criteria Being a journal in transition, the TJP faces lot of for faculty promotion as per Medical Council of India. challenges. A journal focuses on authors, reviewers and For other types of articles, I was not the handling editor. In fact, one of my manuscripts was rejected. We should Address for correspondence: primarily focus on quality rather than quantity, because Dr Rajshekhar Bipeta quality ultimately matters. We may publish thousands Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of of articles, but they may not make sense, if they fail to Psychiatry, deliver. We also need to tackle publication ethical Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Musheerabad, issues such as, duplicate submission, plagiarism, etc. Secunderabad-500003, Hyderabad, Telangana, India These violations should be taken seriously. The Mobile: 9391045080 editorial board and the society should back the editor in Email: [email protected] dealing with such conflicting situations, especially in relation to ‘powerful, influential and intimidating’ Telangana Journal of Psychiatry, July-December 2015:1(1);5-6 5 Bipeta: Is this a new journal? authors. We need to devise and adopt mechanisms to 5. Bipeta R. Whose journal is this anyway? AP J Psychol Med raise the standards of a regional journal to the national 2014; 15(2): 150-1. and international level. 6. Telangana Journal of Psychiatry. About journal. (cited 2016 Jan 13) Available from: https://www.innovativepublication.com/about_journal.php?j We have the responsibility to establish editorial id=46 independence/ freedom,[11] at TJP, which is one of the 7. Rajshekhar Bipeta. Medical editing in India. European mandatory attributes of a good journal;[12] poorly Science Editing 2015; 41(3): 66-70. understood and not frequently talked about in the 8. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, [7] “Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to developing world. biomedical journals: ethical considerations in the conduct and reporting of research: conflicts of interest”. (cited 2016 Dai et al,[13] proposed the following to improve the Jan 13) Available from: standard of journals, i) “optimize the process of peer http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and- review, ii) utilise open-access publishing models responsibilities/author-responsibilities--conflicts-of- actively, iii) find ways of saving costs and getting interest.html. 9. Hoey J. When editors publish in their own journals. JAMC revenue, iv) deal with research fraud or misconduct, v) 1999; 161 (11): 1412-13. maintain sound relationship with pharmaceutical 10. Smith R. Making progress with competing interests. companies, and vi) prove useful in clinical practice and BMJ 2002; 325:1375. research realm”. 11. WAME editorial policy committee. The relationship between journal editors-in-chief and owners (formerly titled editorial independence).World Association of Medical CONCLUSION Editors. (Updated 2009: (cited 2016 Jan 13) Available from: Telangana Journal of Psychiatry is not a new journal, http://www.wame.org/about/policystatements#Relationship but, a journal that came into existence after the division between Editors and Owners. of IPS-AP, and belongs to IPS-TSB. It shares the 12. Bipeta R. Editorial independence in biomedical publishing. legacy and heritage of AP J Psychol Med. Hence, ‘TJP AP J Psychol Med 2014; 15(2): 145-9. is a journal in transition’ and should be viewed in that 13. Dai N, Xu D, Zhong X, Li L, Ling Q, Bu Z. Build infrastructure in publishing scientific journals to benefit perspective. All stakeholders including the editor, the medical scientists. Chinese Journal of Cancer Research editorial board members, the publisher and the society 2014; 26(1):119-123. have a responsibility to raise its standards. We should 14. Kassirer JP. Editorial independence. N Engl J Med 1999; remember that a journal is the asset of the society; but, 340: 1671-2. serves beyond its society.[14,1] I am sure; the TJP will rise to the occasion, will live up to the expectations and How to cite the article: Rajshekhar B. Is this a will be one of the most sought after journals in near new journal?. TJP 2015; 1(1): 5-6. future. Authors’ information: The author is the member of The European Association of Science Editors (EASE). He is also a volunteer of The EASE certification and training group. Acknowledgements: Nil Conflict of interest: None declared Source(s) of support: Nil REFERENCES 1. Andhra Pradesh reorganisation. AP reorganisation portal. Reorganisation Act. (cited 2016 Jan 13) Available from: http://reorganisation.ap.gov.in/index.jsp. 2. Proceedings of the Indian Psychiatric Society Annual General Body Meeting; 2015 Jan 9; Hyderabad, Telangana (India). 3. Proceedings of the Indian Psychiatric Society Annual General Body Meeting; 2016 Jan 23; Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (India). 4. Proceedings of the Indian Psychiatric Society Andhra Pradesh state branch Executive Council meeting; 2015 Jan 9; Hyderabad, Telangana (India). Telangana Journal of Psychiatry, July-December 2015:1(1);5-6 6 .
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